The Cormorant at the Quay

As I walk down to the town Quay I see a Cormorant surface with a huge fish.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

I start running towards it with my camera.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

It’s still flapping and hard to control. The fish, that is.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

The Cormorant takes an age to turn it round so that it’s head-first, ready for comfortable swallowing.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Comfortable? I think there must be a better word to describe the act of getting a fish this size down.

I think it might be a Brown Trout. I check. Some say it’s a Salmon, some that it’s a Sea Trout, some that it’s a Brown Trout. I check. Sea Trout and Brown Trout are the same species, they just look very different.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

The Cormorant trying to control the wriggling fish looks like I feel when I’m trying to stop the washing machine travelling across the room when it’s on fast spin.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Eventually the Cormorant swallows the fish.

Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

I wouldn’t be able to eat for a week if I did that.

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